{"id":7124,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-slippery-slope\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:47","slug":"the-slippery-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-slippery-slope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slippery Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on moral decay in America.                          Romans 1:32<\/p>\n<p>                             ==================<br \/>\n                             THE SLIPPERY SLOPE<br \/>\n                             ==================<\/p>\n<p>    I. Changes I have seen in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>   II. Moral decline nothing new.<br \/>\n        A. Paul&#8217;s stunning denunciation of pagan sin.<br \/>\n        B. Is conclusion anticlimactic?<br \/>\n        C. When values leave, the floodgates open.<\/p>\n<p>  III. Basic decision:  where do values come from?<br \/>\n        A. Secular approach &#8211; values are what majority agrees on.<br \/>\n        B. Religious approach &#8211; values are established by God.<\/p>\n<p>   IV. Four approaches to relating Christian values to our society.<br \/>\n        A. Christ against culture.<br \/>\n        B. Christ of culture.<br \/>\n        C. Christ above culture.<br \/>\n        D. Christ transforming culture.<\/p>\n<p>    V. The biggest battlegrounds for values today.<br \/>\n        A. Government.<br \/>\n        B. Schools.<br \/>\n        C. The media.<br \/>\n        D. Churches.<\/p>\n<p>   VI. Transform our culture, with humility.<br \/>\n        A. Work within the system and make our voice heard.<br \/>\n        B. Christians have had huge blindspots.<br \/>\n        C. We cannot force change on others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on moral decay in America. Romans 1:32 ================== THE SLIPPERY SLOPE ================== I. Changes I have seen in 40 years. II. Moral decline nothing new. A. Paul&#8217;s stunning denunciation of pagan sin. B. Is conclusion anticlimactic? C. When values leave, the floodgates open. III. Basic decision: where do values come from? A. Secular approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1156,117,5001,900,1159,798],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}